Monopoly pricing with limited demand information

Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 23-48

  Eren, Serkan S ^a   Maglaras, Costis ^b  

^a Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well Being   (United States)

^b Division of Decision Risk and Operations ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive analysis; Regret; Revenue mangement; Robust pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149137249     PISSN: 14766930     EISSN: 1477657X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/rpm.2009.41     Document Type: Article

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